Search Tool: Prehistoric monuments within 2km of SX6321061850

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About the database: In all listings clicking on the photo will open a page for the site with a larger photo. The listings are drawn mainly from scientific journals and will not include the most recently discovered minor sites. There is comprehensive coverage of stone circles, stone rows and menhirs. Listings for cists and cairn circles should cover most of the better known sites. There are only partial entries for round cairns, settlements, pounds and none for reaves. For listings of specific types of monument click on Resources in the menu above. Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.

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Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Burford Down stone row and cairnsOS Map:SX 63695 60165NMR record:SX 66 SW 57HER record:4333Megalithic Portal:1463The Stone Rows of GB:Burford DownPMD:Burford Down Stone RowShortName: SR:Burford DnButler map: 54.17DPD page: 70Notes: "This single stone row on a slight north slope extends from a crest at 260m OD to a col at 255m OD. It can be traced from its south terminal, marked by a cairn, at SX 63706017 for 336m, bearing 1o, to a possible blocking stone at SX 63706051 and of different character for a further 120m to SX63706062. The recumbent stone, considered ... to be the north terminal lies yet a further 47m distant at SX 63706067." See also: Sea Views at Burford DownNearby sites:SX63706017Distance: 1.75km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon BallOS Map:SX 64370 60480NMR record:SX 66 SW 53HER record:4354Megalithic Portal:45580ShortName: ES:Lower PilesNotes: "Within the newtake known as lower piles. A group of seven huts near the south east corner of the enclosed land. All now composed of fairly small stones the walls appearing as thick banks of stone and turf, not high, but spreading to a width of 1.8m or more. The diameters vary from c 9.20 to c 12.20m outside measurements. Only one hut has a well defined entrance, this is on the south east side of the circle."Nearby sites:SX64376048Distance: 1.8km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Piles Hill Double Stone Row & CairnsOS Map:SX 65016 61113NMR record:SX 66 SE 86HER record:5662Megalithic Portal:2080The Stone Rows of GB:Piles HillPMD:Piles Hill Stone RowShortName: SR:Piles HillButler map: 54.19DPD page: 74Notes: "The double stone row formed by 139 stones, 7 of which lean; the others are either stumps with drill marks, cleanly snapped off stones, or recumbent posts, whole or split by drilling. Some 30 stones exceed 2.0m. in length with a maximum of 3.0m. A few take the form of slabs or boulders but the majority are of post-type up to 0.6m. square in section, with an angled top created by a single 'chamfer'. The rows in the main alignment are from 21.0m. to 30.0m. apart and within them the gaps between stones vary from 3.0m. to 30.0m. At each end the rows are close, 12.0m. to 17.0m. apart with fewer large gaps between stones". Lethbridge pp.74-6, diagram p.74.Nearby sites:SX65026111Distance: 1.96km

OS Map:SX 62320 63540NMR record:SX 66 SW 102HER record:43608Megalithic Portal:45574ShortName: ES:Ranny BrookNotes: An enclosure of earth and stone walling 0.5m wide by 0.4m high encompasses an oval area 18.0m by 16.0m. It lies on the South facing slope to the North of Ranny Brook. Scheduled: Devon 10853.Nearby sites:SX62326354Distance: 1.91km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Stalldown Stone RowOS Map:SX 63244 62423NMR record:SX 66 SW 17HER record:4300Megalithic Portal:3474PMD:Staldon Stone RowAlternate name: Stalldown stone row Cairn CircleShortName: CC:StalldownButler map: 54.18.1DPD page: 68Grinsell: COR 21Turner: D26Notes: Butler Cairn 1 (Vol 3 54.18). Turner D26 (Type Diii 'Ring Setting with Central reduced to subsoil level or paved'). Cairn in middle of length of stone row. "The northern part of the row is aligned precisely in the centre of the cairn circle, both of which would therefore seem part of the original design. The cairn is not visible from the south end of the southern extension of the row. This extension consists of four general alignments more of which focus on the cairn circle, and the northern end of the extension is tangential to the west side of the circle. These factors, and the larger size of the stones in the northern extension of the row, suggest two phases of construction."Nearby sites:SX63246242Distance: 0.57km